The K-12 complex to house 4,200 students has raised eyebrows across the country as the creme de la creme of "Taj Mahal" schools, $100 million-plus campuses boasting both architectural panache and deluxe amenities.

The RFK complex follows on the heels of two other LA schools among the nation's costliest  the $377 million Edward R. Roybal Learning Center, which opened in 2008, and the $232 million Visual and Performing Arts High School that debuted in 2009.

The pricey schools have come during a sensitive period for the nation's second-largest school system: Nearly 3,000 teachers have been laid off over the past two years, the academic year and programs have been slashed. The district also faces a $640 million shortfall and some schools persistently rank among the nation's lowest performing.

new built a new high school here...people raised hell over the costs....i think it was just over 5 million....

it is considered a state of the art school....

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State of the art but with a fourth world edjimmeekashun.
Yeah. Fourth world.
You voted for it.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orr8xGAor5w&feature=related]YouTube - The Re-education System of Amerika (formerly known as "schools")[/ame]

So if they paid half as much for the campus they could have gotten 700,000 computers for 4,200 students. This situation is ridiculous.

Now if only we had educators who could figure out how to use computers for education. They haven't been able to think of making accounting mandatory in a capitalist country for the last 5 decades. Maybe the schools are really designed to be a SCAM and a 578 million dollar school is just another way to run the scam.

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